Show y nd E Nl ELDRE ANEMIA This article is written as an answer answer answer an an- to to the frequent question as to what causes causes anemia and how it can be cured and also how one knows whether whether a child Is s 's suffering from true anemia or is merely the possessor possessor possessor pos pos- sessor of ot a pale skin Anemia is characterized by lack of red corpuscles corpuscles cor cor- in the blood These corpuscles corpuscles corpuscles cor cor- carry oxygen to the tisSues sues They are colored by the hemoglobin which gives the blood its characteristically red color If children haven't anemia but have naturally pallid skins It will be found on examination of their blood th that it contains the normal number of red corpuscles and that the red colorin coloring content is all right Real anemia is caused by the wrong diet by hemorrhages which have depleted the blood and by diseases disEases diseases dis dis- eases suffered by the mother during pregnancy or by the child after birth The commonest cause perhaps is improper diet Premature babies suffer from this because during the last months of pregnancy nancy iron is stored away In Inthe Inthe inthe the childs child's liver enough to last him f for fr r several months after birth Inthe In Inthe Inthe the premature child this iron has not been stored and so the baby suffers from an iron Iran deficiency during during during dur dur- ing the early months of his life and anda a consequent pallor pallo The number of red blood corpuscles is dependent dependent dependent de de- pendent upon the iron In the tho diet and as few babies get enough iron in their their- food In the early months this iron is furnished them by bv the supply already in their bodies i birth That Is why it is so 50 in hr portent the nursing and tl U bottie bottle b baby bany by be given fruit Juice eg egg yolk and vegetables such i spinach and carrots during tl U early euly months because cause it is aft five or six months that the Ire stored in the Lady ody is exhausted an must be supplied by the diet Anemic children may look fa but they are not ambitious walk their skin is transpire looking and waxy sometimes a most yellow in color Rickets ma mabe mabe mabe be present as these two dis diseasE as frequently go hand in m hand tl tI same faulty diet which causes tl one causing the other Such children need all the fool containing iron They need pleat plent of fresh milk sunlight or sunlight treatments and cod live liv oil They need iron medication i advised by the attending docto and If there are diseases othi oth than nutritional ones which a aJ causing the anemia these must I t treated individually The outlook for recovery fro anemia Is extremely fa fa There are other types of anem than the type just described Th department not being a medical or orr has nothing to do with these is pertinent to keep in mind that thata a child in unusually pale not up to the proper weight or 01 de development development development that it is wise to di cover if he is suffering from anem and not just take it for foi grants giante that he is all right and natural pale |